The action takes place in England after the First World War. The basis of the poem is the myth of the search for the Holy Grail and the legend of the poor fisherman. Parts of the poem are fragmentary and do not form unity. The poem begins with an epigraph – the myth of Sivill. … Read more
JB Priestley The Dangerous Turn To Robert and Fred Kaplen in Chantbari Kloe came friends and relatives for dinner. Among the invited married couple are Gordon and Betty Whitehouse, an employee of the publishing house Oluen Peel, one of the newly appointed directors of this English publishing house Charles Trevor Stanton, and finally the writer … Read more
AI Kuprin Sapsan The story is written on behalf of the dog Sapsan himself: “I’m a Sapsan Thirty-six big and strong dog of rare breed, red and sand color, four years old and weigh about six and a half poods” He talks about his life, that the world’s first creature is the Master. Peregrine Falcon … Read more
J. Slovak Lilla Veneda Sorceress Rose Veneda discusses in her earth grotto with Sister Lilla the course of the battle between the Venedian and Lechite tribes. Ecstatic visions reveal to Rose that her witchcraft does not help the Venedines win the battle, the homeland will be ruined and that Lilla will also die. Lilla cries, … Read more
Myths of most peoples are myths primarily about gods. Myths of Ancient Greece – an exception: in the greater and better part of them is told not about the gods, but about the heroes. Heroes are the sons, grandsons and great-grandsons of the gods from mortal women; they performed feats, cleared the land of monsters, … Read more
The daughter of Harpagon, Eliza and Valer, had long been in love with each other. Their first meeting was very romantic: the ship on which they were both began to sink, and Valer rescued Eliza from a terrible death. Valer fell in love with Eliza so much that he moved to Paris and settled himself … Read more
“A man suddenly noticed that the more luck he has in his life, the less luck he has for some other person,” he remarked casually and even unexpectedly, “I did not like this person, but it turned out that way or almost so…” A typical researcher, Klyucharev, once on the way from work finds a … Read more
A. F. Veltman Wanderer The literary journey is two-dimensional in nature: it is a real journey, and a journey of imagination (memories, reasonings, etc.). On the one hand, the material of the novel is the real journey of the officer A. Veltman to Bessarabia, Moldova, Vala-hii, Dobrudja for almost ten years, and the Russian-Turkish campaign … Read more
In early May 192 … in Leningrad, on an abandoned summer residence on the river Krestovka, there is a murder. A criminal investigation officer Vasily V. Shelga discovers a murdered person with signs of torture. In the spacious basement of the dacha, some physical and chemical experiments were carried out. It is suggested that the … Read more
A third-person narrative. A lot of general comments, reasonings of a publicistic nature. The narrative is also interrupted by memories. March. Ivan Petrovich is a driver. He just returned from work, tired. His wife meets Alain. Suddenly he hears people cry: a fire. Burn Orsovsky warehouses. Ivan Petrovich makes a fuss of what to take … Read more